Steve McClaren was naturally dejected after his side were beaten 3-2 at home at Hull City.

The QPR boss spoke post-match about the open nature of the game, his side's recent defensive record and the temptation to bring on Bright Osayi-Samuel earlier.

Here's everything that the Hoops boss had to say.

On the end-to-end nature of the game

"We’ve had 3 of them this week and we had that with Brentford the last home game here.

"We certainly want to entertain the crowd and I think we’ve done that in the last two home games (laughs), and we just ran out of time today."

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On the competitive Championship

"I’ve just said to the boys in there, that’s our second defeat in 10 games and I wouldn’t say it’s been coming, but when gamble, and you have to gamble – which we have done in the last two games and we had to do today – we’ve been on the wrong end of it.

"We need to get back to the basics, get back on the training ground, and get the simple things right. Because we’re certainly looking like scoring goals, but we conceded three today and it’s difficult to win when you concede three."

On the recent defensive record

"Over that 10 game spell we’ve been very good defensively and we’ve kept clean sheets, now we’re not keeping clean sheets and we need to get back to that.

"Going forward we’re looking far more dangerous and it’s making an entertaining game. We hit the post, we had other opportunities, and I still felt [going into] the second half we’d win but we were always susceptible to conceding that third goal.

"But that’s what happens when you throw caution to the wind, which we had to do, and it didn’t pay off today but we’ll get back to the drawing board.

"This is the Championship, we’ve kind of fallen off the wave but we need to get on another wave. That starts on Monday. Got to get back to working hard and doing the basics right."

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On Hull’s fast start

"We were too deep as a team, we weren’t winning enough second balls, and Hull flew off to a 2-0 lead.

"Games are won and lost in the first 20 minutes and they can arguably say they won it in the first 20 and we lost it. But we recovered and we could have got something from it."

On Luke Freeman’s late free-kick, which sailed narrowly wide

"All the way along we were capable of scoring, and what I’ve liked over recent times, from Brentford and Stoke and Rotherham, is our bench is good now and it can change games.

"We can cause teams problems, we can come back and we nearly did it again today."

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On Bright Osayi-Samuel’s cameo

"We were [tempted to bring him on sooner] but we were creating.

"Smithy had a chance on 75 minutes, we just felt we needed to stay in the game and we did that, but [now it’s] back to work."

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